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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the basis of the quarrel that took place between Solomon and Burch?
(a) Whether Solomon was jealous of Burch.
(b) Whether Solomon was stronger than Burch.
(c) Whether Solomon was a free man.
(d) Whether Solomon was a hard worker.

2. What became a problem with the letter that Solomon had Englishman John Manning mail?
(a) John Manning decided to deliver the letter in person and never reached New York.
(b) Solomon did not provide information concerning his location within it.
(c) Solomon directed the letter to an official who was not authorized to help him regain his freedom.
(d) John Manning never mailed the letter.

3. What type of reputation did Solomon maintain while living in Saratoga Springs?
(a) Educated and hardworking.
(b) Hardworking and respectable.
(c) Trustworthy and educated.
(d) Clean-cut and respectable.

4. What circumstances allowed Solomon Northrup to be born a free man?
(a) Solomon's father was a free man.
(b) Solomon's mother was a free woman.
(c) Solomon was born after the United States Civil War.
(d) Solomon had been born in Canada, and his family had migrated to the United States.

5. How did Solomon view his carpentry work under Myers?
(a) As an opportunity to escape from the area.
(b) As an escape from the ordinary.
(c) As a learning experience.
(d) As an escape from Tibeats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was an important factor to the slaves at the time that they were sold?

2. How can the manner in which Solomon, Eliza, and the other slaves were led from Williams' Slave Pen and onto the Orleans best be described?

3. Realistically, what did Solomon's owner, John M. Tibeats consider him to be?

4. In general, how did Solomon view slave owner William Ford's position with regard to his views on religion and slavery?

5. Which of the following was one thing that Tibeats had a reputation of using when trying to out-maneuver his enemies?

(see the answer key)

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